Author: Andrew J Walls Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
Are you ready to turn your yard into a beautifully landscaped paradise? Of course, you are! Before you dive headlong into making over your yard, you should consider where you live and how that impacts your options. This beginner's guide to landscaping will give you a step-by-step process to transform your backyard with gardening, hardscapes, and botanicals. Regardless of where you live in the United States, you'll need to know the basics of what plants, trees, and materials will hold up in your climate and weather conditions. This is an important step when it comes to ensuring that your landscape endeavors are successful and leave you with a feeling of pride rather than frustration. You've probably seen plenty of gardening and landscaping businesses in your area advertising that they can make all your landscaping dreams come true. However, the easiest and most economical way to transform your yard is to take on the landscaping and gardening yourself! Fortunately, you have Landscaping for Beginners, to be your guide. Not only will you be taken through the process of planning your perfect landscape, but you will have access to lists of plants, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and even vines, that you can grow in your specific region. You'll be given ideas for constructing the best hardscapes for your climate and guidance about the materials that will ensure the longevity for your constructions. These tips and tricks also come with different design ideas so your creativity and imagination can conjure up the perfect landscape for your yard. Believe it or not, you are fully capable of designing and building exactly what you want in your yard. The best part about taking on a do-it-yourself landscape project is that you won't have to rely on someone else to make your designs a reality. Most landscaping projects don't even require a lot of specialized equipment, just the commitment to get it done! Do you have a small yard that you don't think is even big enough for a garden? That's okay, too! There are a lot of options for landscaping and gardening in small spaces, such as container gardening. So, regardless of what size your yard is, the skills you have, or where you live geographically, you can take the information in this book to completely makeover your yard. Use Landscaping for Beginners to make your yard the perfect place for your kids to play in, your friends and family to hang out in, and for you to hold your neighborhood barbeques in.
Author: Owen E. Dell Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 047041149X Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 389
Book Description
Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.
Author: Grant Reid Publisher: Watson-Guptill ISBN: 0770434185 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations, and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents.
Author: Teddy Geis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Have you always wanted to have a beautiful garden where you could spend wonderful moments with the people you love? Have you ever gone to the garden center of a big box home improvement store and seen some great looking flowers, plants or trees and thought they would look great in your yard, but you didn't know where to start? It's not difficult to grow great plants if you keep a few things in mind and avoid some common planting mistakes. In this book, let's go through the dos and don'ts of planting. You don't want to buy a fantastic plant and get it home and find out that it doesn't fit in your yard. Or worse yet, you decide to plant it anyway and then you have a huge plant that's taken over your yard. Just take a look a few other things you will discover inside: How to design your garden Dozens of ideas and practical information that you can use for your garden Fruit and vegetable trees that you can plant and enjoy with your family Lists of tools and materials for your project Hardscape How to maintain your garden landscape And much more! Once you've figured out where you want to plant, you can look at which plants are good choices to plant in the area. The most important thing to always remember when planting above all else, is to plant 'the right plant in the right place'. Planting the wrong plant in the wrong place will come back to haunt you every time. Spend a lot of time in nurseries discovering the various kinds of plants and trees that will grow successfully in your area. Get your soil tested even buying a test kit. Check the pH of your soil and what your plants need. Designing the exterior of your home increases its value, but you don't necessarily have to be a gardening professional or an architect because this book will guide you step by step in all your projects. Ready to get started? Click "Buy Now"!
Author: Sara Bendrick Publisher: ISBN: 1624143393 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
If you've ever looked at the weed-filled expanse that passes for your backyard and wondered why your family never uses it, then this book is for you. Sara Bendrick, host of I Hate My Yard! and Build It Like Bendrick, addresses the most common homeowner requests for affordable ways to bring privacy, shade, dining areas, fire features and manageable plantings into their yards to increase their enjoyment of outdoor spaces and increase the value of their home.
Author: Roger French Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 110
Book Description
Have you ever dreamt of building a beautiful garden to spend amazing moments? Then keep reading...Now that it is finally summer, it is likely that most of you will spend time focusing on your lawn and landscaping. It will certainly be intimidating if you do not have a green thumb and have never really attempted much landscaping before. Do you know what plants to purchase? Are you skeptical about whether or not you can manage them? Want to purchase mulch? Alternatively, soil? Do you know how frequently they need to be irrigated? There are several variables to build the right landscaping plan, and it can be challenging to know where to start. The majority will be utterly frustrated at the idea of managing it themselves and may opt then to recruit somebody for the job like a landscaping professional or expert. There are countless advantages in landscaping your yard because it makes the dull dark areas look not only vibrant but also significantly add to the value of your house or property if you are aiming to sell it.However, why should you spend the extra dollars when you can take the expert advice from a book that does what it claims to? Landscape design is certainly something that will often involve some error and fail, but it can involve out a lot of guesswork only by doing some homework and knowing more about what you are doing. Landscaping for Beginners is the right book for you; it contains everything a beginner should know in order to become a pro. This book will help you understand: -What Landscaping Actually Is & How it Differs from Gardening-What are the Types of Landscape Designs You Can Create?-What are the Tools You Need to Purchase? -What Other Creative Ideas You Can Try to Further Enhance Your LawnThis book will provide you everything you need to know in order to become a professional yourself. If you are a beginner still struggling to grasp the concept of landscaping, look no further. Scroll to the top of the page and click the buy now button!
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1465470786 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 394
Book Description
Be inspired to imagine the garden of your dreams with this guide that will help you plan, build, and plant your perfect outdoor space. Whether you're aiming for a total redesign or targeting a specific area, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers fresh and achievable ideas for every gardener: grasp the fundamentals of landscape and garden design, find a style that's right for you, and create the structures and planting plans to bring your ideas to life. Produced by a team of award-winning horticultural experts, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers extensive design inspiration backed up with solid practical content, including step-by-step landscape structures and planting techniques.
Author: Audrey Quigley Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY) ISBN: 9780806905006 Category : Ink painting, Chinese Languages : en Pages : 0
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"A book for beginners who want to learn about it."-- "Arts & Activities . Rock formations, mountain crags, waterfalls, pines, willows, pagodas, bridges, lakes and mists. 64 pages, 126 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 11.
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